Despite the name "Trust", Annie was never at any point supporting or protecting "Charlie", after the fact. She was merely protecting herself, because her actions, including those of "Charlie", are sadly, not mutually exclusive. This, made it refreshingly simple, to sympathize with Annie, and that is perhaps what Trust did best; portraying her process, and her shock.Trust was a compelling story, which was unfortunately told by a director who couldn't quite get their tongue around the topic, and provide a completely satisfying journey of emotion and attention. However, be that as it may, Trust was competent.The main casts' performance, including Clarke and Davis, was of actors who were doing enough to show they can in fact act, at a drop of a hat with little effort. They weren't amazing, but they were showing how amazing they could be if they wanted to... If the project was right or better.Overall, though Trust was a pretty decent effort from Schwimmer, I was disappointed at the potential lost in this story. I did however, like how it ended, and had the rest of the movie been equally enthralling, that ending could've been an incredibly dispiriting moment of artistic flair. 6.4/10

I watched this for a second time after watching it when it first came out. I only remembered bits and pieces but not the ending. The whole movie is ruined by a "lack of an ending". There are so many movies made like this in the last ten years or so it is a waste of time watching them. You have to kind of guess what might or might not have happened. I just wasted another two hours of my life!!

I saw this movie many years ago and having decided to watch it again last night, I had forgotten how accurate this movie is (reading the news) and the scary thing is how many of these 'Charlie's' exist in today's society?It would be so easy for someone to wonder how on earth a teenager could fall in love with her 'perpetuator' who is not only 10-15 years older than her but someone who rapes her but this Charlie is oh so clever with his words, his constant compliments of Annie, even making her feel guilty to the point of her protecting him; not wanting to help the police catch him and her relationship with her family falling apart. I too used to chat in these chat rooms when I was her age (albeit almost 20 years ago) and while I never met up with anyone or had the same sort of technology/cheap phone plans to constantly be texting back and forth, it scares me if I was actually speaking to a 'Charlie' myself.This movie could have easily come across in a negative way being such a sensitive subject however it was quite the opposite about a subject that should be taught in schools to all teenagers.

(Warning this review may contain some spoilers)I recommend this movie to every single friend of mine who has a child, how Internet has become a double edge tool and how some creepy yet smart people can use it to their own sick benefits is quite scary. This films details how a single perverted mind can destroy a loving family, on how the father ( played by Clive Owen in one of his best roles) gets obsessed on finding the guy that raped his daughter, his focused is getting "justice" done and forgets on what's more important helping to cope with her. I honestly felt shocked on how realistic this film was on how raw it's emotions are towards pedophiles and showing the public who they disguise themselves as ordinary people and that's the toughest part knowing they are not this malevolent ugly men or women they can look like simple likable persons in the outside. Everyone involved in this movie did a phenomenal job and I have to give mayor points to Liana Liberato her acting is outstanding and I wish her the best on a bright career. To me the ending is the absolute truth this people may be loving parents with good marriages and most likely never touch there own children that doesn't mean they are sick and true monsters they just know how to hide their true selves, as an old Japanese saying we have 3 faces one to the public another one to our loved ones and the last one to ourselves.